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Scope and Content: 28 voluminous administrative files on a few immigration problems, notably the detention and deportation, in 1921, of hundreds of Jewish immigrants arriving in the ports of Saint John, N.B., and Quebec City, as well as the entry in Canada in 1923 of 3,300 Jewish refugees of Russo-Roumanian origin. T…

Scope and Content: 28 voluminous administrative files on a few immigration problems, notably the detention and deportation, in 1921, of hundreds of Jewish immigrants arriving in the ports of Saint John, N.B., and Quebec City, as well as the entry in Canada in 1923 of 3,300 Jewish refugees of Russo-Roumanian origin. The files include nominal lists of the detained and deported persons. They also contain material, among others, on the joint activities of ICA Canada, JIAS, and HICEM, an international association for Jewish migration